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African colonization

by: Buford, Napoleon B.; Buford, Napoleon B., 1807-1883, author

Publication date: 1863

Topics: African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa, African Americans -- Colonization, Colonization, Politics and government, Africa -- Colonization, United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, Africa, United States

Publisher: [United States] : [publisher not identified]

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Item Size: 45.4M

8 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Two letters to President Lincoln arguing for the establishment of an American colony on the west coast of Africa. Buford suggests that this could be achieved by colonizing Angola or by taking control of the Republic of Liberia, and that the majority of the colonizing population might be composed of freed African-Americans

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Both letters addressed "to the president of the United States" and signed: "N.B. Buford, Brig. Gen'l. U.S. Vols."

Fourth and eighth pages are blank

[Letter no. 1.]: December 10, 1832 -- Letter no. 2: Feb. 12, 1863